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J. AQBOWMAN; BRAID OR RIBBON HOLDER.

(No Model.)

Patented Nov. 8,1881,

v No. 249,153.-

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UNITED STATES PATENT Denice.

JOHN A. BOWMAN, or BOSTON, MAssAoHUsE'rr-S.

BRAID OR RII'BBON HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,153, dated November 8, 1881,

' Application filed July 18, 1881. (No model.)

T 0 an whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN A. BOWMAN, of Boston, of the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ribbon or Braid Holders; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the followingspecification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-- Figures 1 and 2 are opposite side views, and Fig. 3 a vertical and transverse section, of a ribbon or braid holder containing my improvement, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafter made. Fig. 4. is a top view of the holder, with is guide slotted to re- In such drawings, A denotes a disk, (usually of pasteboard,) having fastened to one side of it, at and near its periphery, a right-angularly-bent metallic guide, B, formed as shown. This guide is connected with the disk by means of fiexile projections or spurs extending from the guide through the disk, and bent down therefrom, as represented. A plain cylinder or spool, O, is placed eudwise against the said side of the disk and arranged concentrically with the disk, and is connected to it by a headed screw, a, going loosely through the disk at its center and screwed into the spool, the same being to connect the disk and spool and allow of either of them being revolved independently of the other.

The braid or ribbon Dis wound in a helixcoil about the periphery of the spool, the guide B extending across the coil and down against its outer side to, ornearly to, the spool, so as to keep the coil in place against the disk and from slipping laterally off the spool. On a person grasping'the disk by the thumb and index-finger of his left hand, and seizing with his righthand the coil at its outer end and pulling on it, the coil may be readily unwound from the spool, as occasion may require.

-If desirable, the upper part of the guide may be slotted and the braid or ribbon be passed either up or down through the slot, which is shown at b in Fig. 4.

The entire pasteboard disk, with the guide made in a separate piece and arranged with and fastened to the disk inmanner as shown, and made to embrace the roll of braid or ribbon on its opposite sides, presents advantages over a metallic clasp having two or more radial arms and formed as represented in the United States Patent No. 193,487 With my ribbon or braid holder one guide only becomes necessary, thereby saving one or more additional arms, as required by the invention shown in and claimed by the said patent. By dispensing with bent metal arms the wear or defacing of the roll by the edges of the arms while the roll is being unwound is avoided, especially when the ribbon has scalloped edges. The disk better supports the roll and preserves its inner edge or side from becoming soiled, as it entirely covers such,whereas with radial arms portions of the side are let t uncovered. The guide keeps the roll from falling away from the disk.

i do not claim a metallic clasp for braidrolls having two or more radial arms to extend from the center and engage with the periphery of the roll, substantially as shown and described in the aforesaid patent.

I claim- The improved braid-holder consisting of the disk A, secured to the spool O by screw-connection, and the guide B, extending across the periphery of the coil and down the side at right angles thereto, and connected .to the dis-k A by the spurs or projections, substantially as described.

JOHN A. BOWMAN. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER. 

